Swedish startup Halmos Labs aims to speed up the development of new medicines using artificial intelligence and has secured a spot in the renowned US accelerator Y Combinator.
In a pilot project, Dawn Technology and Media Campus NL created the open‑source verification service Verifieermij.nl, which checks C2PA provenance data embedded in digital images. The VPRO is the first Dutch media outlet to integrate this digital signature into its workflow, and the tool’s code has been released on GitHub for other organisations to test and adapt.
Training tomorrow’s lawyers without AI would be nonsense, so the French National Bar Council has allied with the startup Jimini AI to bring AI tools into legal education.
Swedish spatial‑biology startup Cubase Bio teamed up with Austrian organoid company HeartBeat.bio, receiving about €1 million in Eurostars funding to create the FACTS‑3D project, which combines Cubase Bio’s 3D spatial transcriptomics with HeartBeat.bio’s cardiac organoids for high‑throughput drug discovery targeting myocardial fibrosis.
PodcastPortal.nl, a knowledge platform for podcasts, added WeAreTellers as its third founding partner to strengthen its production and marketing capabilities for branded video podcasts.
BIOSINTEX SRL, a Romanian manufacturer of high‑performance surgical sutures, together with technology partner TRICUBIQ SOLUTIONS SRL, has completed a 16‑month project worth 18.07 million lei that automates key production processes through robotics, AI and digital tools. The project, financed by the EU‑backed PNRR, enhances BIOSINTEX’s production capacity, quality control and international market position.
Finnish space‑tech startup ICEYE signed a partnership with Japanese insurer Sompo Japan to provide its Flood Insights SAR satellite data, helping the insurer speed up flood‑damage assessments and claims processing as part of Sompo’s Hikeshi DNA 2030 resilience project.
Polish startup Creotech Instruments secured a near‑€14 million contract with ESA to deliver the SAWA satellite, which will monitor space weather. The agreement covers the full mission lifecycle, marking a major milestone for the company in the European space sector.
Latvian fintech Handwave announced an expanded partnership with Visa that will integrate Visa’s tokenisation and fraud‑prevention tools into Handwave’s palm‑recognition payment platform, paving the way for biometric card onboarding and payments to be launched first in the Baltics and then across Europe.
Former eMAG CEO Iulian Stanciu is scaling his post‑eMAG venture, Network One Distribution, by establishing a local logistics presence in the Netherlands to serve its four appliance brands across Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, marking a shift from a Romania‑centric export model to direct Western‑European stock and distribution.